The Battle of Dorking), many of which focused on the idea that Britain might be Germany's next victim. Great BritainĪlthough negative comments about Germany had begun to appear in Britain in the 1880s, following the Prussian victory in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870–71 criticisms were expressed in the press and in the birth of the invasion novel (e. It was also proposed that people of German descent be forbidden from holding diplomatic posts as they might not have 'solidarity with respect to Russia'.ĭespite the press campaign against Germans, Germanophobic feelings did not develop in Russia to any widespread extent, and died out, due to the Imperial family's German roots and the presence of many German names in the Russian political elite. It was further suggested by some writers that Russian citizens of German origin who did not speak Russian and follow the Orthodox faith should be considered foreigners. The authors then criticized contemporary German scholars for their neglect of the Russian language and for printing articles in foreign languages while receiving funds from the Russian people. Articles were published mentioning the difficulties Lomonosov had encountered from the foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, most of whom had been of German descent. The following year, 1865, the 100th anniversary of the death of Mikhail Lomonosov was marked throughout the Russian empire. Mikhail Katkov published a harsh criticism of the article in the Moscow News, which in turn caused a flood of angry articles in which Russian writers expressed their irritation with Europeans, some of which featured direct attacks on Germans. It began in 1864 with the publication of an article by a writer (using the pseudonym 'Shedoferotti') who proposed that Poland be given autonomy and that the privileges of the German barons in the Baltic republics and Finland be preserved. Petersburg who had united around a right wing newspaper. In the 1860s Russia experienced an outbreak of Germanophobia, mainly restricted to a small group of writers in St. 5.1 BBC World Service Country Rating Poll.However, as a political phenomenon, anti-German sentiment became significant especially from the mid-19th Century, parallel with the Unification of Germany and its rise as a world power. For example, the Chronicon Lethrense, a Danish history written in the 12th century, is characterized by the writer's deep hatred of all things German. The phenomenon had existed, in one way or another, for as long as Germans existed and had contacts with other people. Hopps 1917)Īnti-German cartoon from Australia, Norman Lindsay, between 19 File:Guerre 14-18-Humour-L'ingordo, trop dur-1915.JPGįrench postcard from the First World War era showing a caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II attempting to devour the world this French version was based on an Italian cartoonīritish Anti-German poster, circa 1919, calling for boycott of German goods and depicting German businesspeople selling their products in Britain as 'the other face' of German soldiers who committed atrocities during the 1914–1918 (British Empire Union poster).Īnti-German sentiment (or Germanophobia) is defined as an opposition to or fear of Germany, its inhabitants, its culture and the German language.

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